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February 22, 2015, 6:55 PM

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Vice Presidents of product and engineering discuss how Twitter makes product decisions — Twitter's Dilemma — Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that's so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing.

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @alexia, @mdudas, @travisbernard, @sub8u, @chartier and @valaafshar

Kevin Roose / Fusion:

Meet the tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct — Like most media workers, Matthew Lazin-Ryder, a Vancouver-based producer with CBC Radio, spends a fair amount of time on Twitter. When he tweets, his messages are seen by some percentage of his 3,470 followers.

More: Daring Fireball

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Equation Group shows US already has a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity, but like the original, it's purely offensive — Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks — “What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity.”

More: Backchannel and CircleID. Tweets: @jason_healey and @henriquebastos

Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:

Spanish shoeshine guards Twitter handles like @Canada and @Japan until he can give ownership to governments — Meet the Spanish shoeshine guy who secretly guards Twitter's greatest real estate — Officially, Javier Castaño is a 50-year-old shoeshine guy at a cafe in Malaga, Spain.

Tweets: @alexhortontx, @luefkens and @digiphile

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

How flash sale site Gilt Groupe overextended and lost focus after rapid growth and fundraising — Four years ago Gilt Groupe was the hottest startup in New York — Here's what happened — Four years ago, luxury flash-sales startup Gilt Groupe was one of the buzziest e-commerce startups in the world …

Tweets: @borthwick

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC One M9 pics and specs leak ahead of March 1st launch, will feature a 2GHz Snapdragon 810 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 5-inch 1080p display, and a 20MP camera — HTC One M9 pictures and specs leak out — As usual with HTC, the next great Android smartphone from the Taiwanese company has apparently …

More: TechCrunch, Android Authority, TechRadar.com, Gizmodo, Droid Life, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, AndroidHeadlines.com, GSMArena.com, Engadget, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin and TechnoBuffalo

Tweets: @reckless and @detroitborg

Leslie Price / Racked:

What the Tech World Doesn't Understand About Fashion — The tech world is infatuated with fashion. This is because fashion has something tech seriously wants: the ability to create and sustain demand for products that are—let's face it—kind of useless. — “We desperately need …

Tweets: @lessien, @vijayshekhar and @charlesarthur

Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review:

Hands-on with Magic Leap's AR technology, which augments your vision by projecting light into your eyes — What It's Like to Try Magic Leap's Take on Virtual Reality — A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @jyarow

Tony Romm / Politico:

White House to work with tech companies to develop digital content to discredit extremist messages — Using social media to counter Al Qaeda, ISIL messaging — The White House plans to work closely with tech companies to counter groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL online …

More: New York Times

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

Uber must mature, but its victory over competitors and regulators seems certain in the US — It's Already Over And Uber Has Won — Money isn't everything, but it's certainly a useful metric for keeping score, especially when you're measuring it in the billions.

More: New York Times. Tweets: @jonrussell, @chrisgeidner, @dnvolz, @jspeedymorris22 and @mikeisaac. Thanks:@jmbooyah

Fusion:

How the JOBS Act, investor demand, and private securities markets allow Uber to stay private

Tweets: @stephaniemlee

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:

How Line fused messaging, gaming, and merchandising into a pop culture phenomenon in Japan — How Japan's Line App Became A Culture-Changing, Revenue-Generating Phenomenon — IT'S ALREADY A POWERHOUSE IN MESSAGING, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MERCHANDISE, WITH PAYMENTS AND MORE ON THE WAY. NEXT STOP: AMERICA.

More: PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @harrymccracken. Thanks:@mariedomingo

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Tumblr adds “torrent” to adult content filter hiding related posts and searches from non-logged in users — Tumblr Censors “Torrent” Related Tags and Searches — It appears that piracy is becoming a growing concern for micro-blogging platform Tumblr.

More: Vuze Dev Blog, ResearchBuzz, SlashGear and Neowin

Kashmir Hill / Fusion:

Snapchat launches Safety Center website offering advice to parents and teachers, links to community guidelines telling teens not to share nudes — Snapchat tells teen users: No nudes! — When Snapchat first hit the scene, many people assumed that it was primarily a “safe sexting” …

More: USA TODAY College, Business Insider and WebProNews

Tweets: @mims, @kevinroose, @swiftonsecurity, @kashhill and @kashhill

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